Database-less torrent website

#1

Post by etagate » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 7:26 AM UTC

Database-less torrent website
boredcaveman.xyz

Re: Database-less torrent website

#2

Post by vindarel » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 10:34 AM UTC

related: https://torrent-paradise.ml/ Also based on IPFS with this HTTP gateway. I find a lot of torrents in there.

Re: Database-less torrent website

#3

Post by etagate » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 10:49 AM UTC

vindarel wrote: post #2

related: https://torrent-paradise.ml/ Also based on IPFS with this HTTP gateway. I find a lot of torrents in there.

Love this website too. But in this case the database and search engine is hosted on the server, it only uses IPFS to distribute a copy of a folder ready out of the box (db included) to be hosted as another instance (a backup).

Re: Database-less torrent website

#4

Post by yonixw » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 10:55 AM UTC

Enhance it with the fact you can lazy load sqlite query using HTTP Range as demonstrated in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630

Re: Database-less torrent website

#5

Post by politician » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 10:55 AM UTC

How do immutable systems like IPFS manage the problem of updates to a blog?

Re: Database-less torrent website

#6

Post by yonixw » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 10:57 AM UTC

politician wrote: post #5

How do immutable systems like IPFS manage the problem of updates to a blog?

You have "publish ids" which you control using private keys.. like a dns... so you can have your main page address known and all the other posts linked from that page

Re: Database-less torrent website

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Post by Closi » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 10:57 AM UTC

yonixw wrote: post #4

Enhance it with the fact you can lazy load sqlite query using HTTP Range as demonstrated in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630

Exactly the thought I had reading this! Combining these projects would be awesome, proper semantic web! Plus it would mean near-zero loading times as the db size scaled (although ultimately some peers would still need the full database).

Re: Database-less torrent website

#8

Post by mab122 » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 11:04 AM UTC

etagate wrote: post #3

vindarel wrote: post #2

related: https://torrent-paradise.ml/ Also based on IPFS with this HTTP gateway. I find a lot of torrents in there.

Love this website too. But in this case the database and search engine is hosted on the server, it only uses IPFS to distribute a copy of a folder ready out of the box (db included) to be hosted as another instance (a backup).

You actually should be able to access it using IPFS at/ipns/torrent-paradise.ml or /ipns/12D3KooWB3GY1u6zMLqnf3MJ8zhX3SS1oBj7VXk3xp6sJJiFGZXp but it seems that clicking search throws an JS error :/

Re: Database-less torrent website

#9

Post by tecleandor » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 11:06 AM UTC

I'm curious about why didn't they compress the SQLite file using gzip. Even in level 1, for superfast compression/decompression halved the file size.

Re: Database-less torrent website

#10

Post by danka » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 11:10 AM UTC

I wonder why the author ignored the option of compression in the post. Even with a simple gzip DEFLATE compression, those 10MB of plain text could get as small as a 1MB archive and possibly more, meaning that in a compressed 10MB payload you could fit much much more than 135K records.